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DEVELOPMENT BY
THE PEOPLE,
FOR THE PEOPLE

Together with hundreds of members and partners around the world, we are working to advance community-led development and push development banks to respect people and the planet.

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KfW: Irresponsible Banking

Our new report reveals the stark gap between the human rights commitments of KfW - Germany's public development bank - and the reality on the ground. In particular, it shows how KfW is failing to take adequate steps to ensure people can freely and safely participate, express their opinions, or oppose its projects.

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THE POWER OF COLLECTIVE STRUGGLES

In our quarterly newsletters, you can find updates from our members and partners around the world, inspiring stories about community-led struggles, useful resources, and much more!

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DEMYSTIFYING DEVELOPMENT FINANCE

Development banks present themselves as champions in the fight against climate change and key drivers of sustainable development. But is this true?

Research and case studies from all over the world show that these institutions are actually exacerbating the problems they claim to solve.

STORIES & ADVOCACY

With our members and partners, we work to ensure that frontline communities have the information, power and resources to determine their own development paths, and to use their own voice to hold development banks and international companies accountable for their impacts on people and the planet.

Check out the latest updates on our work, find out about our latest campaigns and advocacy efforts, and join our collective campaigns!

International groups stand in solidarity with Armenian environmental and human rights defenders facing defamation and criminalization

In recent months, Armenian human rights and environmental defenders and their organizations have been facing defamatory attacks in local media and they are increasingly being targeted (through defamation, smear campaigns, intimidation and criminalization) for their peaceful, legitimate human ...

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Recommendations on reprisals for the updated ADB safeguards

On January 31st, a group of 20 civil society organizations presented a series of observations and recommendations to the draft Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), expressing concerns around the lack of clear commitments to prevent and address reprisals ...

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Uzbekistan: local activist fights against imminent forced evictions

On January 11, Uzbek activist Dilmurod Mirusmanov and his 14 family members - including nine children and his elderly mother - risk being forcibly evicted and forever losing their home in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. Thanks to the support of a corrupt political and judiciary system, a ...

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Too good to be true: the true cost of green hydrogen in Chile

For the local Indigenous Chango communities in northern Chile, the arrival of green hydrogen is only the last drop in a long history of exploitation. In the region of Antofagasta, investments supposedly green are harming an already fragile ecosystem and jeopardizing their livelihoods.

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Georgia: how a community living near a port is struggling for their right to breath clean air

In Georgia, for the community living near the Poti port life has become unbearable, because of the noise and air pollution. Despite these concerns, the US International Development Finance Corporation funded the expansion of a new terminal.

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Coalition’s updates

In this section, you can find updates about our Coalition’s processes and structures (e.g.: updates from the Steering Committee, our strategy-setting process, etc.).

The Community Resource Exchange: learning as we create together

As we embark on year two of the Community Resource Exchnage, we want to share a glimpse of the emerging patterns and the many lessons learned.

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Regional strategic conversation – Latin America

In June 2021, the Coalition held an online strategic conversation with its members and partners in Latin America, to learn more about the work ...

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The Community Resource Exchange: spreading our branches and roots

The pandemic has confirmed to us the importance of building and nurturing connections. When development finance institutions, governments, ...

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Members Map

The Coalition has over 100 members based in around 50 countries.
Click here to check who our members are and learn more about their work.

OUR COLLECTIVE WORK

The members and partners of the Coalition for Human Rights in Development work together to ensure that development is community-led and that it respects, protects, and fulfills human rights.

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